QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Error PS034 is that error which encounters while updating QuickBooks Desktop Payroll. There are many such errors and such types of error mostly annoy you while using QuickBooks. Here you can get information regarding such errors, QuickBooks Help.

QuickBooks Payroll Error PS034

Most of the time users come across such errors, one such error is QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Error PS034. This mostly occurs while updating QuickBooks Payroll.

Causes of QuickBooks Payroll Error PS034:

• Damaged or corrupted company files.
• If the tax table or payroll files are invalid.
• Invalid billing information.
• If Intuit couldn’t find some important files due to the bad network.
• If payroll is not registered.

Fixing QuickBooks Payroll Error PS034

In order to resolve such QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Error PS034, here are some easiest methods to fix those errors:

Solution 1: Restart and Reboot.

Restarting and rebooting your system resolves most of the errors, for this procedure follow these steps:

• First, log out of your QuickBooks Account.
• Then reboot your system and its related database.
• And when rebooting get completed again log in to your QuickBooks Account.
• Close all the background apps that are running in the background.
• Then perform the update again.

Solution 2: Check if you’re registered user.

• Open QuickBooks Desktop account.
• Press F2 function key to check if you’re registered user.
• The window will pop up and the topmost entry will show if you’re registered a user or not.

Solution 3:  Check for information and New Updates

• Go to the main official QuickBooks site.

• Sign in to QuickBooks website utilizing the right credentials.  

• Search for the new QuickBooks Updates.

• Download the New updates (if there are), so that it removes all the Compatibility error.

Solution 4: Scan your computer and files.

Scanning your computer and QuickBooks support files will save your time and effort to detect harmful as well as corrupted files. Make use of Windows virus and threat protection to run a selective scan for the files involved in QuickBooks.

Solution 5: Modifying the User Account Controls.

Before starting the update, switch off the user account controls:

• In start button type, and search for change user account control settings.
• Then turn off the settings.
• Try to reupdate the QuickBooks Payroll again.
• After updating it successfully again turn the settings on.

Solution 6: Check Firewall or Antivirus setting

There can be a scenario that due to “advanced protection setting”, firewall or antivirus software may be blocking the updates and causing the error.

In this case, you turn off the firewall settings to avoid such errors:

• Go to the start button.
• Search for the firewall setting and then click on ‘manage exceptions’.
• Add software/ program to the list.
• And now from the displayed list select the QuickBooks Payroll or search for it.  Or you can directly switch off the firewall setting till the updates are being carried out. Perform the same action for the externally downloaded antivirus.

Here we end our article, hope our easiest and simplest methods have resolved your problems. Still, if you didn’t find any of the solutions to your QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Error PS034. For more information refer to QuickBooks Help.